Posted on 11/09/2009 1:52:00 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Let's play a game of Q&A. The time to go on strike is:
1: Company profits are soaring and competition for hiring by employers is strong 2: Company profits are sinking, corporate taxes are rising, competition for jobs by employees is going through the roof
This may seem like a no-brainer, but not if you have the mind of some union workers.
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A local company had a major strike against them during/right after the (rigged??) Election Economy Crash. Primary disagreement that they could not resolve - management wanted them to contribute a $5 co-pay on their plush health insurance.
The company is now sending off another production line to out-of-state. For their new 777. Boeing. 5,000+ jobs. To a non-union state.
Not sure if the union got the $5 co-pay or not.
oh wow...is that the Boeing to SC thing we heard about a week or so ago?
I can’t imagine going on strike over a $5 co-pay, especially once I used a calculator to run the numbers.
*sheesh*
Seven-and-a-half cents doesn’t mean a heck of a lot.
Seven-and-a-half cents doesn’t mean a a thing.
But give it to me every hour, fourty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!
Sounds like 1855.
But that would have been 72 hours a week (6 x 12).
These people are only worth as much as it costs to replace them. I say fire them all if they don’t agree to the new terms. It isn’t as if there is a shortage of potential replacement workers that would be more than happy to have a job.
“These people are only worth as much as it costs to replace them.”
I hope they will find that out soon enough. In the case of Boeing with the thousands of lost jobs that will be sent to S. Carolina (with non-union workers), the union folks up here in the NW are saying “Cheaper there. But we do better work.” Of course that is easier said then done - especially with the numerous delays to the 777 or whatever it is. A year or more now I think? Lots of problems with the overseas contruction of parts though too - but that is another thread. Sort of. The high price of union labor is one reason they are doing more of this stuff overseas.
I guess the Safeway workers don’t need to worry about me going to Honduras to buy my fruit though. However, in the years to come it will know doubt be easier for the Honduran to work the check-out line.
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